Without a doubt, you are right... essentials offer a lot of security in the face of market swings and changes to the human condition. Back in the 1990's, I did pretty well "selling information"

San Antonio is a pretty nice place, too @robertandrew... my ex father-in-law lived in San Antonio (out towards Balcones Heights), so we'd go down there quite often. Haven't been back to Austin since 2006;

Yes @detlev, some day it will be raining and windy outside, and suddenly I will find the inspiration to finish them all. Thanks for stopping by!

Dialing down the tempo a bit this week... and heading for the time machine, back to 1996 where I gathered quite the collection of CDs in the "moody café girls" genre. Lisa Loeb was a regular

Thank you @bluemoon, appreciate the support!

You know, I'm not even sure @robertandrew, I just know it's pretty much the central nervous system of developers. I'm gonna head back out into the yard now. There are some bushes that need trimming, before

Maybe that's just part of human nature @oldtimer, the so-called "Pareto Principle" at work.

Here's that #posh tweety thing:

It seems extremely unlikely that anything like this would pass... if it did, it would be the closest thing to some kind of re-distribution of income we've ever seen in the US.

Thanks @porters, I just hope a good number of people will stop for long enough to appreciate the fact that there is something more than just eternal woe here... also an opportunity. As for Hive, it's time

We do, too, @rynow! I just hope enough people come through this thinking... "you know that wasn't actually SO bad" and decide to make a point of keeping some of the habits formed during their

Thanks! Looked at the deck; interesting set of perspectives. But, as you said, adoption will come from the desire to use. And from where I am sitting, we're talking about the end user here, not the

We still have Steemit @oldtimer, although each time I visit there it seems like it has skated backwards, rather than forwards. Perhaps a "lesson" that when something lacks direction, it will

We seem to have skewed somewhat later than normal... typically we get done with the day's creative projects around 2:00am and I'm generally up and taking the dog out at 9:00am. Thinking about it, perhaps

Your bacon quiche sounds totally delish! Things are pretty much jumping around here, too... after a very long and very cold early spring, suddenly we have bright sunny skies and warmth, and suddenly things

I can totally buy into the idea that the virus was inadvertently set loose from the lab as a result of slack control systems, and then the whole thing went haywire. They were just studying it, and someone

That's really awesome news, Shane! Creativecoin was always one of my favorite SCOT tribes... so glad it is coming to life here on the Hive!

IF — for a moment — we assume this is all a "government plot to control people," the longer they keep people cooped up, the more that plan will backfire. Not because a bunch of people go out

Cool to bump into this, right now... as you might remember, I listen to a lot of what is now generally referred to as Progressive House; a genre that seems to disproportionately come from the Ukraine,

If you were using peak lock to log in and you have not logged out and been forced to log back in and create a new PIN, that may be what you're experiencing... there was an update in the past 24 hours that